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shikamaru approaches the exams with a sense of apathy ; when he battles the sunagakure ninja temari, he defeats her but forfeits his match to her, due to his chakra being low. despite this loss, he is the only ninja among his peers to be promoted to the rank of chunin, as the overseers of the exams were impressed by the insight and intelligence he demonstrated against temari. as a chunin, shikamaru is appointed the leader of a team to prevent sasuke uchiha from defecting to the village of otogakure. although shikamaru '